Director, Ecosystem at Promise Venture Studio

Promise supports innovators and accelerates social innovations in early childhood development to realize an abundant and just future for America’s children and families. We envision a world where all children, no matter their background, can fulfill their innate promise.

Promise is an early childhood-focused nonprofit organization driving towards a vision of an abundant and just world where all children can fulfill their innate promise. To work toward that vision, we advance change through two mutually-reinforcing strategies:
1) activate and strengthen the early childhood ecosystem by aligning funders, policy leaders, and practitioners around a shared vision and collective action, and
2) nurture and grow the impact of proximate leaders and their social ventures by increasing resources, connections, and sustainability.

Who We Are Promise is an early childhood-focused nonprofit organization driving towards a vision of an abundant and just world where all children can fulfill their innate promise. To work toward that vision, we advance change through two mutually-reinforcing strategies:
1) activate and strengthen the early childhood ecosystem by aligning funders, policy leaders, and practitioners around a shared vision and collective action, and
2) nurture and grow the impact of proximate leaders and their social ventures by increasing resources, connections, and sustainability.

Our strategies come to life through Promise’s three programmatic buckets:

• Ecosystem
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  Ignites a cross-sector movement — uniting champions, capital, and collective will behind bold visions and narratives for America’s youngest children and families
• Change maker Communities
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  Drive the sustainability, social capital, and power of proximate changemakers across the early childhood field and in their communities
• The Promise Fund
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  Identifies, resources, and scales proximate-led social innovations that prove the future young children and families deserve is within reach

To date, we’ve supported more than 760 early childhood ventures nationwide through coaching, connections to capital, and community. We’ve catalyzed over $25M to social ventures, and among our most deeply supported organizations, 91% grew their impact, 80% increased budgets, and 72% expanded their teams. Through the Early Childhood Leaders of Color Collaborative, 500+ leaders across 40+ states are building collective power to reach millions of children – proof that when BIPOC leaders come together, they don’t just survive, they thrive.

The Director, Ecosystem will lead Promise Venture Studio’s work to activate the broader early childhood ecosystem toward a shared vision of an abundant, just future for all children and families. This role stewards the “Ecosystem” dimension of Promise’s programs by coordinating leaders, social innovators, funders, researchers, policymakers, and champions within and beyond early childhood to collaborate toward systemic change.

The Director, Ecosystem will architect and oversee flagship initiatives designed to bring together thousands of champions around unifying visions and narratives, catalyze collaboration across siloes, and help to unlock dramatically increased private, philanthropic, and corporate investments in early childhood.

This role is designed for a leader who excels at cross-sector coalition building, narrative strategy, network design, resource mobilization/fundraising, and systems-level problem solving. It is an opportunity to help architect a powerful infrastructure for field-wide coordination and collaborative action that can reshape how the United States invests in and supports early childhood.

Strategic Program Leadership & Field Building

• Lead Promise’s strategy to activate the early childhood ecosystem around field-informed visions for an abundant and just future for children and families in the United States
• Connect and align leaders within and outside early childhood to build momentum and shared purpose
• Shape a multi-year roadmap for field-wide collaboration, investment, and narrative change

Capital Mobilization & Strategic…